Monday - September 7

Bike

4h 30m

86.00 miles

19.11 Mi/hr

Group ride on the CR1 with some friends from World Cup Cycling. There was 11 of us starting and after 30 mile 4 turned for a shorter ride. The remaining 7 of us really picked it up. Great ride! Total ascent was over 4500 ft of climbing and 5100 calories burned.

Saturday - September 5

Bike

3h 07m

53.85 miles

17.28 Mi/hr

Yep more hills. This was a ride on the Felt with the new gearing 53-38 chain rings and 12-27 cassette. Very nice! I do think I'll change out the 53 for a 52 b/c I was climbing a lot more in the big chain ring with that cassette.

Anyway something I thought of and I think I heard it some where but can't remember where. "A short term of pain and suffering, a life time of bragging rights." This equates to today's ride and the X2 hill repeats on Turtle Ridge Rd at 22% grade. The steep part is only a 1/2 mile long but a real wake up type of climb. The decent is ALL brake and a supper view.

Thursday - September 3

You got it LOTS of HILLs. I even found a 22% grade, Turtle Ridge Rd so happy. Next ride out that way I do some hill repeats on it. Total ascent was over 4000ft.

Keep this in mind when you read the following; Plan to succeed and accept the outcome.

I have been thinking about my plans for next years Ironman race (s). I thought about registering for either Ironman Wisconsin or Ironman Florida this year. That would mean I could be doing two Ironman’s in 2010, Ironman Lake Placid which I am already registered for and one of the other two (IMWI or IMFL). I think I am more than capable of do two in a season. Now here is my flip side. I want to qualify for Kona, right. I think I have a very good chance of doing so at LP. If I do so that means that if I register for any other IM’s I will not go because I will be doing Kona, right. Kona is in Oct and the focus will shift to that race.

I was 20 some minutes from qualify in my AG this year. Yeah I know might as well been an hour. The past several years cut off at IMLP for my age group has been in the 10:30’ish time frame. So to be safe lets say I need to cut off 28 minutes off my current IM time. Again I thing it is doable. Fred suggested more emphasis on the bike, which I agree. Then that leaves me with working on the run and I am doing so. Actually if I have the same run performance as this year but not walk though the six AS I did, I could cut 9 minutes there. See this is working out just fine.

In my mind these are my chances. I will be fitter and more experience in the long course. If my AG field stays consistence in KQ time as in the past years and I can cut 28 minutes off this past year’s time I’ll make the KQ. So with all that said I will focus on IMLP and KQ. So that is the goal.